A weekly thread devoted to the discussion of movies
This week, Forrest Gump celebrates its 25th anniversary. Now I have heard all the criticisms. How it’s nostalgic Boomer porn. How it punishes Robin Wright for her promiscuity. How it’s not Pulp Fiction. (Don’t worry, fans. I have a Quentin … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (7/2)
This year is the 75th anniversary of one of the earliest (and quite possibly the first ever) noir films: Double Indemnity, starring Fred MacMurray, Barbara Stanwyck, and Edward G. Robinson. This movie won our Film Noir tournament (beating out amazing … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/25)
Thirty years ago, Michael Keaton first reared his immovable neck and plummy lips in Tim Burton’s Batman movie. It would launch the genre that we are still living through to today: turning kid’s properties into cool and edgy things for … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/18)
Today’s prompt: What’s your favorite spoof/parody? The newest Shaft movie comes out this weekend (bringing in Sam Jackson and Richard Roundtree one more time), which brings to mind the greatest tribute to the blaxsplotation genre ever. Black Dynamite was directed … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/11)
So in Gone With the Wind (80 years old this year), there’s a scene where Scarlett O’Hara embraces her long time friend Ashley. Ashley’s sister happen to walk in on them. She really, really hates Scarlett (she thinks of her … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (6/4)
I like big beasts and I cannot lie! And I suspect you do too. With the new Godzilla movie coming out this week, it’s time to tell the Avocado: what is your favorite movie featuring a giant monster? Is it the … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (5/28)
Stop me if you’ve heard this one. A street rat in a red vest and white harem pants evades a villainous Grand Vizier named Jaffar. He’s accompanied by a thief named Abu and aided by a flying carpet and a … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (5/21)
Twenty years this month, which was a long time ago in a theatrical world far, far away, Star Wars: Episode One – The Phantom Menace hit theaters… and sadly Brian De Palma wasn’t on hand to workshop the opening screen … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (5/14)
This week will see a Nintendo video game character, who is known for an exclamatory catchphrase, navigate a cyberpunk world where the citizens are evolved from things like lizard creatures or vegetables. A no… it’s not a Super Mario movie. … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (5/7)
Sometimes you think you’ve seen an entire movie already because it’s already been referenced in pop culture. That was the case with me and Rear Window. I know what you’re thinking. It’s because of that Simpsons episode, right? No! The … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/30)
Avengers: Endgame is coming out this week, and everyone’s got people with superhuman strength and fancy, brandable tights on their mind (Avengers novelty baseball jerseys now available at Box Lunch!)… so let’s talk about another superhero movie featuring Josh Brolin … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/23)
Welcome to the Weekly Movie Thread! Today’s prompt: What is your favorite movie opening? There are plenty of iconic ones. There’s the prologue from various James Bond movies, which stretch from the gunsight where you the viewer gets out-shot by … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/16)
Lately, I’ve been thinking about MTV. Remember when they played music videos? Did you ever think that some of those directors would go on to bigger and better things in the late 90’s and 2000’s? MTV created a generation of … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/9)
This week, no one wants to be buried in the Pet Sematary. The latest Stephen King adaptation makes it to the big screen this weekend. It’s not fair to judge it harshly against the original just yet, though. Sometimes retreads … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (4/2)
Before the intermission for A Star Is Born (1954), there’s a movie within a movie. Vicki Lester (Judy Garland) and Norman Maine (James Mason) go to the premiere of what is sure to be Vicki’s catapult into stardom. We get … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/26)
Us is coming out this week, which is a good time to take a look at another movie about murderers who wear masks. Only in this case… it’s a mask that opens your pores and moisturizes. Mary Harron did not … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/19)
“Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did… but backwards in high heels.” The phase has been embraced by a lot of women, namely politicians. Hillary Clinton did a proof of concept once by dancing with her husband onstage. President Barack … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/12)
It’s been a quiet year so far. The top movie of 2019 domestically according to Box Office Mojo is Glass, the Unbreakable sequel set in the M. Night-verse. January and February have typically been very quiet, though the latter hasn’t … Continue reading Avocado Weekly Movie Thread (3/5)
For the second week of this column’s celebration of Black History Month, I considered two topics. The first would be in honor of yesterday’s President’s Day and honor all the Black actors who have been called on to play that … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Honors the Black Academy Award Nominees
My apologies for a delayed start to using this column to celebrate Black History Month as I am eternally playing catch up and last week was busy trying to finish up with the reviews I was behind on. With Valentine’s Day … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Celebrates Black Romance in Film
Last week I started to play catch up with a bunch of reviews I missed (no new reviews as I was sick and it was cold as hell outside) and though I promised to keep them short, I still found … Continue reading The Weekly Movie Thread Finishes Playing Catch up with Missed Reviews
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